Human
Aude
Exile Editions
$19.95
paper
115pp
1-55096-007-5
However, by overpopulating the second part of her story with characters and subplots that only serve to move it toward its resolution, the author breaks the climate of intimacy between the two main characters she has so delicately established in the first part. This seems to be a classic case where the writer’s blind submission to the imperatives of conventional storytelling – or, for that matter, her inability to put them to good use – somehow dilutes and spoils the emotional power of the matter at hand.
That said, it feels almost unfair to judge too harshly a work that is undoubtedly sincere and at times successful in bringing us closer to, as the author puts it, “the dark and wordless zone inside the self.” mRb
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